Truth, Integrity & Character - The Norma Chavez Story
I attended what is probably the last debate of the campaign season last night, save for KVIA tapings today, because I had a feeling that if the proverbial stuff was gonna hit the fan, it would be at the last debate.
And it didn't disappoint. there is plenty to talk about that I'll get to in another post, but I want to zero in on former State Representative Norma Chavez and her comments in the closing segment.
First, these candidates have to realize that they have to really hope there is a run-off. Apparently none of them have ever taken Politics 101 but one of them has to make it into a run-off and not a single one of them, other than Dori, is smart enough to set themselves up as a viable #2 option.
Why?
Because of emotion. Most of them know they are losing and at this point are throwing haymakers hoping to land something big.
Ultimately Norma will go down, much like her political career, as the biggest disappointment of all because she's not thinking strategically, which is not a shocker if you know Norma. This, as it has from day one, has been all about a personal vendetta for Norma. If her and Garcia were smart, they would have went after Fenenbock to try to sew up that number two spot and then see what happens if they pull Escobar into a run off.
But that didn't happen and now people are just kinda waiting around to figure out what the over-under is before Chavez pulls a Mariana Chew and ends up in a Republican commercial for the general election.
Chavez, who started off the race with a strategy of being the elder stateswoman because she was trying to look like the mature, qualified, candidate who had learned from her previous mistakes, has apparently abandoned that strategy in favor of crazy town. Now it is back to the old school, win-at-all-costs, bully Norma Chavez.
I, along with many others, was encouraged and kinda rooting for, the "New Norma". Although we all kinda were waiting around for the "real Norma" to show up again and well, she didn't disappoint.
So to get to the point of what Chavez said last night that I found so interesting, she went after Escobar in her closing and mentioned that when it comes to someone's public political record that truth, integrity, and character are important.
If you know Norma, then you know that she is the last person that should have the audacity to talk about any of those three things.
First, truth. Norma has been putting up this false front of being changed and reformed and having learned from the past.
No she hasn't.
She's the same ol' Norma, only in better shape and minus an entourage. She acknowledged making mistakes in the past and said probably the biggest lie I've heard this election cycle, not told by Dori Fenenbock or a JP candidate...that her mistakes never cost this community money.
Her mistakes and behavior as a legislator have probably cost this community more money than any other single elected official. I can sum (see what I did there?) up what she cost this community up in one word, "gaming".
Integrity?
This is the state representative who was taking money from the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo to pass a gaming bill and also taking money from a tribe who was trying to kill gaming in Texas.
That's not integrity and there is no explaining that away.
And character?
For those of you who are new around here, or are new voters - this is the real Norma Chavez.
She now blows this off because she apologized for it. But she only apologized for it because every LGBTQ organization in the Lone Star State was up in arms about Chavez - a Democrat mind you - being so willing to win at all costs that she went after the sexuality of her opponent.
And her justification for "outing" her opponent, was that her opponent was allegedly "profiling" a biker. Now let me nip that bullshit in the bud because her apologists are just as bad as Norma for pretending that is even remotely justification.
First, there were several bikers that Norma planted in the audience because she believes they are her base. She had one stand up and ask about a particular bill. The idea was that Norma's opponent wouldn't know what the bill was it that was somehow going to make her look bad. I don't know, it was stupid then, its even more stupid now. Anywho, Norma's opponent said that she didn't know what the bill was, but judging by how the guy was dressed, it had something to do with motorcycles.
In Norma and her apologists mind, that was tantamount to calling them the "n" word.
But the reality was, it was a biker bill and the guy was a biker, so the hub bub was completely artificial. The point is, who the hell cares? Being a biker is an activity you choose to do. No one forces you. No one makes you do it. Its a recreational activity or mostly well-to-do people (bikes aren't cheap) and isn't something remotely akin to being LGBTQ.
Not even in the same universe. But that is STILL Norma's justification for outing her opponent.
But the reality is that is the real Norma Chavez.
Win at all costs.
No matter what damage it does to her, those around her....
...or this community.
And it didn't disappoint. there is plenty to talk about that I'll get to in another post, but I want to zero in on former State Representative Norma Chavez and her comments in the closing segment.
First, these candidates have to realize that they have to really hope there is a run-off. Apparently none of them have ever taken Politics 101 but one of them has to make it into a run-off and not a single one of them, other than Dori, is smart enough to set themselves up as a viable #2 option.
Why?
Because of emotion. Most of them know they are losing and at this point are throwing haymakers hoping to land something big.
Ultimately Norma will go down, much like her political career, as the biggest disappointment of all because she's not thinking strategically, which is not a shocker if you know Norma. This, as it has from day one, has been all about a personal vendetta for Norma. If her and Garcia were smart, they would have went after Fenenbock to try to sew up that number two spot and then see what happens if they pull Escobar into a run off.
But that didn't happen and now people are just kinda waiting around to figure out what the over-under is before Chavez pulls a Mariana Chew and ends up in a Republican commercial for the general election.
Chavez, who started off the race with a strategy of being the elder stateswoman because she was trying to look like the mature, qualified, candidate who had learned from her previous mistakes, has apparently abandoned that strategy in favor of crazy town. Now it is back to the old school, win-at-all-costs, bully Norma Chavez.
I, along with many others, was encouraged and kinda rooting for, the "New Norma". Although we all kinda were waiting around for the "real Norma" to show up again and well, she didn't disappoint.
So to get to the point of what Chavez said last night that I found so interesting, she went after Escobar in her closing and mentioned that when it comes to someone's public political record that truth, integrity, and character are important.
If you know Norma, then you know that she is the last person that should have the audacity to talk about any of those three things.
First, truth. Norma has been putting up this false front of being changed and reformed and having learned from the past.
No she hasn't.
She's the same ol' Norma, only in better shape and minus an entourage. She acknowledged making mistakes in the past and said probably the biggest lie I've heard this election cycle, not told by Dori Fenenbock or a JP candidate...that her mistakes never cost this community money.
Her mistakes and behavior as a legislator have probably cost this community more money than any other single elected official. I can sum (see what I did there?) up what she cost this community up in one word, "gaming".
Integrity?
This is the state representative who was taking money from the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo to pass a gaming bill and also taking money from a tribe who was trying to kill gaming in Texas.
That's not integrity and there is no explaining that away.
And character?
For those of you who are new around here, or are new voters - this is the real Norma Chavez.
She now blows this off because she apologized for it. But she only apologized for it because every LGBTQ organization in the Lone Star State was up in arms about Chavez - a Democrat mind you - being so willing to win at all costs that she went after the sexuality of her opponent.
And her justification for "outing" her opponent, was that her opponent was allegedly "profiling" a biker. Now let me nip that bullshit in the bud because her apologists are just as bad as Norma for pretending that is even remotely justification.
First, there were several bikers that Norma planted in the audience because she believes they are her base. She had one stand up and ask about a particular bill. The idea was that Norma's opponent wouldn't know what the bill was it that was somehow going to make her look bad. I don't know, it was stupid then, its even more stupid now. Anywho, Norma's opponent said that she didn't know what the bill was, but judging by how the guy was dressed, it had something to do with motorcycles.
In Norma and her apologists mind, that was tantamount to calling them the "n" word.
But the reality was, it was a biker bill and the guy was a biker, so the hub bub was completely artificial. The point is, who the hell cares? Being a biker is an activity you choose to do. No one forces you. No one makes you do it. Its a recreational activity or mostly well-to-do people (bikes aren't cheap) and isn't something remotely akin to being LGBTQ.
Not even in the same universe. But that is STILL Norma's justification for outing her opponent.
But the reality is that is the real Norma Chavez.
Win at all costs.
No matter what damage it does to her, those around her....
...or this community.
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